I think it would be great if we clubbed together to generate a set of REBOL 
scripts for the computer language shoot-out.

As has already been suggested, we could collaborate on the ML to develop and 
refine solutions.

And, ditto, it'd make sense to have a thread per REBOL script.


To start the ball rolling, I've picked what is probably the easiest one of 
all: sum-file -- that'll help us get out heads around the various requirements.

My draft solution looks like this:

----------

rebol []

sum: 0
foreach line read/lines to-file system/script/args [
   sum: sum + to integer! trim line
  ]
print sum
quit
----------

This needs a command line (cos REBOL doesn't read STDIN) something like:

  rebol sum-file.r sum-file-data.txt

And it is **not** a valid solution as the requirements say:
  "Programs should write to stdout. Program output is redirected to a 
log-file and compared to the expected output."

As far as I know, that simply isn't possible with REBOL -- it does not write 
to STDOUT -- so we may want to stop the whole exercise right now until that 
issue is resolved.

Please comment!
Sunanda
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